Drop the ring. Keep walking.
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQ93L0jV6c&feature=player_embedded#!
Yes, you’ve already seen the ‘happiest penguin ever’ video that’s been doing the rounds lately.
Never mind that. This is the remix you want.
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Artist, Paul Sizer’s entry in the first ‘Remake’ Challenge of 2011 on Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel forums. The brief was as follows:
“You must design a poster for a movie called IRON MAN directed by Stanley Kubrick. This is all you know.”
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV2rJdQU3_E&feature=player_embedded#!
Youtuber MoPapparani‘s tribute to fictional bands featured in movies.
Wait. Spinal Tap were fictional?
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Example Tweet: “I stand on the roof of Betfair Towers, amid the detritus and pigeons and remnants of hoping. I am waiting.”
Riight.
Via Darragh Doyle’s Twitter
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A rather clever mashup of the insipid Will Smith vehicle I am Legend and the classic Home Alone.
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The Fling – a mini-joystick made from conductive rubber – attaches to the touchscreen of an iPad, minimising the amount of actual screen-touching required to play touchscreen controlled games on a touchscreen device.
Touchscreen. The word has lost all meaning.
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It’s a few years old now, but if you’re a fan of Magic Eye autostereograms, (and you haven’t already seen this one) you know what to do.
If not, move on for God’s sake before someone tries to explain what to do.
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“If old age pensions can’t be cut, the axe must fall on fringe benefits. €966m is being spent on free schemes — without a means test. Pensioners have been exempt from cuts to date. This is despite a significant reduction in the cost of living. Current pensioners receive defined benefit private pensions that will be unattainable to younger generations.” (Irish Examiner, October 14, 2010)
But what happens if your mother loses her home because you mortgaged it to save your business?
Cough.
Yates’ Battle To Save Home (Irish Independent)
(Photocall Ireland)